Not a good mood in the Chelsea dressing room. After the opening victory over Everton 1:0, the team from Stamford Bridge played 2:2 with Tottenham, and today lost to Leeds 3:0 at Elland Road. The guests entered the match better, had the initiative and scored a goal in the 15th minute, but it was disallowed due to Raheem Sterling’s offside. The Blues attacked, however, in vain, and that is why Thomas Tuchel was angry after the game. He was also annoyed due to the poor individual mistakes of his players. Chelsea soundly defeated in Leeds due to Mendy’s massive blunder“We scored an own goal, gave an awfully cheap set-piece away, and conceded from it. This has nothing to do with pressing, running fewer kilometres, nothing to do with the style of Leeds. We should not confuse these things. I think we lost in first 20 mins where we were clearly better and had huge chances we didn’t convert. We gave two presents away and that was it… We were better team at beginning, had triple amount of touches in box, but no shots on target. Can’t score if you don’t shoot on target” said Tuchel.6 – Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Kalidou Koulibaly has been sent off six times in Serie A and the Premier League combined – the most of any player in the big-five European leagues in this time. Dismissed. pic.twitter.com/ZTnXN0qJyN— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) August 21, 2022 As expected, the German tactician talked about the need to sign ‘better’ players, but with just 11 days until the end of the transfer window, and with only Wesley Fofana being mentioned with a 100 million fee, it’s hard to see when the next player will come from (Aubameyang from Barca maybe?). Chelsea desperately needs a striker, and nobody knows what will happen in Auba transfer fails. “We give goals away from huge individual errors too often. It is what it is. This is the squad. My energy goes to the squad we have, we try to make the squad better, but if we don’t we fight what we have” said Tuchel, clearly avoiding to directly call for transfer targets, since his new owner already spent a lot of money for the current new players.
